Established in 2024, the Wildlife Decision-Support Shop is a new wildlife research laboratory in the Nevada Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Nevada, Reno. We build science products to support decision needs for wildlife management agencies in the Great Basin region and beyond.
Our overall goal is to provide science that helps understand how landscapes influence wildlife populations and communities and supports value-based wildlife management decisions in an inclusive and transparent framework. We have the usual capacity in quantitative ecology and population biology that are common among wildlife research laboratories. However, co-production and decision analysis are core values that set us apart. We work closely with cooperating agencies to understand their decision problems and build them highly customized science products that support their real-world management decisions.
On this site, you can learn about who we are, our research interests, publications and tools from our work, our lab lead’s philosophy toward mentorship, and expectations for behavior in the lab. We will post advertisements for graduate student and scientist opportunities here as well.
Please reach out if you are interested in joining our team or collaborating with us.
Contact information:
Dr. Brian Folt
Assistant Unit Leader - Wildlife
U.S. Geological Survey, Nevada Cooperative Fish and Wildlife
Research Unit
University of Nevada, Reno
Office: 100D
Knudtsen Resource Center, 1000 Valley Road, Reno, NV 89512
Mail:
1664 N. Virginia Street, Mail Stop 405, Reno, NV 89557
Email: bfolt@unr.edu